ABSTRACT
The merging of a series of scientific discoveries and new technologies with capitalism enabled the Industrial Revolution to displace the guild systems of the middle Ages, and the craft-based economies that fit the rhymes of community life. The hundreds of thousands of desperate people fleeing from the Middle East represent social injustice issues that are on a scale that even governments are unable to address. The resulting impact of scientism has been a continued source of social injustices. The influence of educators in contributing to a more socially just society has been largely limited to changing stereotypical thinking that limited people’s opportunity to express their talents, and to influencing the thinking of employers. The cultural changes resulting from the Digital Revolution, which again was motivated by how Enlightenment thinkers assumed that basing everyday life on the mode of thinking acclaimed by other elites, that is critical rationality of the individual as well as science and technology, would lead to progress.
